They still don't get that it is their MVP.
No, they really don't.
They already
started removing items from 3.0 schedule, even though it's not even one week old yet. They did the same thing when they rushed 2.6.0 out last Christmas after croberts was saying 3.0 was coming before Dec 19th, 2016. Then right up to the recently released 2.6.3, they had removed several critical items. So what should've been 2.7, ended up now being 3.0 which
doesn't even contain 25% of what was promised to be in 3.0 - last Aug 2016.
I believe that 3.0, whatever ends up in it, is the MVP that croberts has been threatening for over a year now. They have not only run out of time and money, but key people have left, are leaving, and sources tell me there are several more on the way out because they've started trimming the four (!) studios around the world due to dwindling finances. Which explains the latest referral cash grab which the community (this is a
4K upvoted Reddit thread on that) has been revolting against.
And if you haven't yet got wind of the
latest Hello Kitty fiasco and referral system; it's truly hilarious.
When you think about what happened to the Lily drone and similar projects, whereby State/Fed officials had to get involved because they were a public concern, that's precisely what I see happening in the end. Especially since most of the execs involved have been involved in similar ventures here and overseas, and which led to failure and loss of investor money. It's all very well documented as I
wrote here last month.
As to the 3.0 planets (there aren't any), just
as I predicted some months back, sources are telling me that the reason they can't do planets, only moons and asteroids which can be placed in the space scenes like stations, is because they simply can't get it to work. Let alone have entire planetary bodies which support seamless space<->planetary transitions as they've been promising. And even placing these moons in the scene, ends up in a major performance issue; not to mention networking problems.
Let's not forget that, now in Summer 2017,
6 years and almost $150 million later, assuming they do release a 3.0 with these moons, they still haven't completed 1 of the
110 systems they promised for the game. All of which contain stations, planets, moons, asteroid fields etc. This is the
game's star map. Not even 1% of that is built.
I get that some backers have hope; but between the reputation management accounts being created all over the place, the fake Star Citizen "reviews/previews" by sites nobody ever heard of, all they're doing is one massive disinformation campaign. And the toxic backers (who were mobilized by
actions taken by CIG themselves these past years) who are waging an Internet wide war against dissent, some of whom we believe to be actively engaged in money laundering via the Grey market, have just made things a whole lot worse; and that has completely tainted the project.
As I said back in July 2015 when I wrote that first blog, these past two years, I haven't seen anything that has swayed my opinion that either of these games will ever see the light of day as promised.
When I backed this game in Nov 2012, never in my wildest dreams, did I think that it would come to this. It's all just so very sad.
